sioner of highways, when, in their opinion, such an office shall become necessary, and allow him a suitable compensation therefor. Executive power of mayor and SECT. 8. The executive power of said city generally, and the administration of the police, with all the powers heretofore vested in the selectmen aldermen. of Worcester, shall be vested in, and may be exercised by the mayor and aldermen, as fully as if the same were herein specially enumerated. er of ap and removal May require The mayor and aldermen shall have full and ex- Their powclusive power to appoint a constable or constables, pointment and a city marshal and assistants, with the powers and duties of constables, and all other police officers, and the same to remove at pleasure. And the mayor and aldermen may require any person, bonds. who may be appointed marshal or constable of the city, to give bonds for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office, with such security, and to such amount, as they may deem reasonable and proper; upon which bonds the like proceedings and remedies may be had, as are by law provided in case of constables' bonds taken by the selectmen of towns. The city council shall, annually, as soon after Officers to be their organization as may be convenient, elect by city council. joint ballot, in convention, a treasurer and collector of taxes, a chief engineer, a city clerk, and three assessors of taxes, and fix their compensations. They shall also, in such manner as they shall determine, appoint or elect all other subordinate offieers, for whose election or appointment other provision is not herein mađe, define their duties, and fix their compensations. All sittings of the mayor and aldermen, of the common council, and of the city council, shall be public, when they are not engaged in executive business. elected by from the The city council shall take care that no money Payments be paid from the treasury, unless granted or ap- treasury, propriated, and shall secure a just and proper ac- how guardcountability by requiring bonds, with sufficient city council. ed by the Mayor and aldermen to have the buildings, ment of all penalties and sureties, from all persons intrusted with the receipt, custody, or disbursement of money. The mayor and aldermen shall have the care and superintendence of the city buildings, and the cuscare of city tody and management of all city property, with and manage- power to let or to sell what may be legally sold, city proper- and to purchase property, real or personal, in the name and for the use of the city, whenever its interest or convenience may, in their judgment, reAnd the mayor and aldermen shall, as quire it. often as once a year, cause to be published, for the use of the inhabitants, a particular account of the receipts and expenditures, and a schedule of city property and of the city debts. ty. To publish annually an account of receipts and expenditures, &c. Mayor to nominate, &c. Exception. City clerk also clerk to dermen. SECT. 9. In all cases in which appointments are directed to be made by the mayor and aldermen, the mayor shall have the exclusive power of nomination, being subject, however, to confirmation or rejection by the board of aldermen; and no person shall be eligible to any office of emolument, the salary of which is payable out of the city treasury, who, at the time of such appointment, shall be a member of the board of aldermen, or of the common council. SECT. 10. The city clerk shall also be clerk of board of al- the board of aldermen, and shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the board of aldermen; and he shall perform all the duties, and exercise all the powers, by law incumbent upon, or vested in, the town clerk of the town of Worcester. He shall be chosen for one year, and until another shall be chosen and qualified in his place, but may, at any time, be removed by the city council. He shall deliver to his successor in office, as soon as chosen and qualified, all journals, records, papers, documents, or other things, held by him in his capacity of city clerk. Overseers of the poor. SECT. 11. The qualified voters of each ward, at their respective annual ward meetings for the choice of officers, shall elect, by ballot, one person in each ward, who shall be a resident of said ward, to be an overseer of the poor; and the persons thus chosen, together with the mayor, shall constitute the board of overseers of the poor; and shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties, now by law appertaining to the overseers of the poor of the town of Worcester. mittee. And the qualified voters shall, at the same time School. comand in like manner, elect three persons in each ward, who shall be residents of the ward, to be members of the school committee; and the persons thus chosen, together with the mayor, shall constitute the school committee, and have the care and superintendence of the public schools; and all the rights and obligations of the said town of Worcester in relation to the grant and appropriation of money to the support of schools, and the special powers and authority heretofore conferred, by law, upon the inhabitants of the centre school district Power of in said town, to raise money for the support of centre disschools in said district, shall be merged in the gard to powers and obligations of the city, to be exercised merged. in the same manner as over other subjects of taxation. And all grants and appropriations of money, for the support of schools and the erection and repair of school houses, in said city, shall be made by the city government, in the same manner as grants and appropriations are made for other city purposes. trict in re schools sessors. The qualified voters shall, at the same time and Assistant asin like manner, elect one person in each ward, who shall be a resident of said ward, to be an assistant assessor; and it shall be the duty of the persons so chosen to furnish the assessors with all necessary information relative to persons and property taxable in their respective wards; and they shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty. And the persons to be chosen by the city coun- Assessors. cil, as assessors, shall constitute the board of assess Taxes. Of vacancies Concerning streets and ways. Appeals for damages. Public health. Drains and sewers. ors, and shall exercise the powers, and be subject to the duties and liabilities, of assessors in towns. All taxes shall be assessed, apportioned, and collected, in the manner prescribed by the general laws of the Commonwealth: provided, however, that the city council may establish further or additional provisions for the collection thereof. Should there fail to be a choice of overseers of the poor, members of the school committee, or assistant assessors, in any ward, on the day of the annual ward meeting, the meeting shall be adjourned from time to time, until the elections shall be completed. SECT. 12. The city council shall have the same powers in relation to the laying out, acceptance, altering, or discontinuing of streets and ways, and the assessment of damages, which selectmen and inhabitants of towns now have by law; but all petitions and questions relating to laying out, widening, altering, or discontinuing, any street or way, shall be first acted on by the mayor and aldermen. Any person aggrieved by any proceedings of the mayor and aldermen, or of the city council, in the exercise of such powers respecting streets and ways, shall have the same right of appeal, by complaint, to the county commissioners of the county of Worcester, as is given by the laws of the Commonwealth to appeal from the decisions of selectmen or the inhabitants of towns. SECT. 13. All the power and authority now by law vested in the selectmen of the town of Worcester, for the preservation of the public health, shall be transferred to, and vested in, the city council, to be carried into execution in such manner as the city council shall deem expedient. SECT. 14. The city council shall have authority to cause drains and common sewers to be laid down through any streets or private lands, paying the owners such damage as they may sustain of wood, &c. thereby, and to require all persons to pay a reasonable sum for the privilege of opening any drain into said public drain or common sewer; and also to require that private drains shall be conducted into the public drain or sewer, in any case in which the said city council shall judge the same necessary or proper for the cleanliness and health of the city. And the city council may make by-laws, with Inspection suitable penalties, for the inspection and survey, measurement and sale, of lumber, wood, hay, coal, and bark, brought into the city for sale, and shall have the same powers as the town now have in reference to the fire department, and the laws relating thereto, and in reference to the suspension of the laws for the protection and preservation of useful birds, and of all other laws the operation or suspension of which is subject to the action of the town thereon. to determine of represen SECT. 15. It shall be the duty of the city coun- City council cil, in the month of October, annually, to meet in the number convention, and determine the number of repre- tatives in sentatives to be elected to the general court, by general the city, in such year, which shall be conclusive. And the number thus determined shall be specified in the warrant calling meetings for the election of representatives. court. in relation and United cers. SECT. 16. All elections for county, state, and Proceedings United States officers, who are voted for by the to election of people, shall be held at meetings of the citizens county, state qualified to vote in such elections, in their respect- States offive wards, at the time fixed by law for these elections respectively; and at such meetings, all the votes given for said several officers, respectively, shall be assorted, counted, declared, and registered, in open ward meeting, by causing the names of all persons voted for, and the number of votes given for each, to be written in the ward record, at length. The ward clerk shall forthwith deliver to the city clerk a certified copy of the record of such elections. The city clerk shall forthwith record |